diary
returning miles of space
can you find the precise hour
travel through that day
locate the very moment
ago there
the train goes back and forth
stops at what time stations
monday morning january tenth
autumn ten years
ago then
the boat arrives departs
ticket pier cabin port
pre-war london paris rome
before the depression
remember where
the plane roars lifts the earth
speeds me a century
past sound past light
we know the way back
remember when
and buses taxis subways trams
for how long how far conversations
so much so many who and what
and love and life and yes again
name place date pen
grass flesh
the deep of night is crept upon our talk
and what we had to say the wind will keep
until our tongues can thrust up through the stalk
and stay the light; meanwhile let silence sleep
between us remembering what we were
before our eyes were covered by the dark
lovers who saw beauty in each other
and from the clay drew forth an hour's spark
that hour can not die, though we must lie
with stiffened arms about an earth which turned
about us once to prove how much of sky
there is in love's embrace; our kisses burned
the millioned lightyeared stars that now must roam
the space of all eternity till dust
can rise on flaming wings to plume the dome
with fires kindled by our mortal lust